Showing results for screening test. Search instead for screening smut.

screening test

British

noun

a simple test performed on a large number of people to identify those who have or are likely to develop a specified disease

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Exact Sciences, which went public in 2001, sells genetic tests, a liver cancer screening test called Oncoguard, and Cologuard, which was memorably lampooned External link by Saturday Night Live in 2023.

From Barron's

Exact Sciences offers cancer screening and diagnostic products, including Cologuard, a colorectal cancer screening test.

From The Wall Street Journal

Exact Sciences, with a market value of $13.2 billion and $2.8 billion in revenue last year, sells the at-home colon cancer screening test Cologuard.

From Barron's

Exact Sciences sells Cologuard, an at-home colon cancer screening test.

From Barron's

In Wales, everyone 50 or over automatically receives at-home bowel screening test.

From BBC

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023